His remarks came after several states red flagged the shortage of COVID-19 vaccines. On Friday, India recorded 3.43 lakh fresh cases of COVID with 4,000 deaths in the last 24 hours.
India Covid-19 Cases: India s total active caseload has reached 37,36,648.
New Delhi:
Maharashtra, Karnataka and Delhi are among 10 states that account for 71.75 per cent of the 4,03,738 new COVID-19 cases registered in a day, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.
The other states in the list of 10 are Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Haryana.
Maharashtra has reported the highest daily new cases at 56,578. It is followed by Karnataka with 47,563 while Kerala reported 41,971 new cases.
A total of more than 30.22 crore tests have been conducted so far across the country while the daily COVID-19 positivity rate stands at 21.64 per cent, the ministry said.
CDC has
allocated approximately $14 million towards COVID-19 Response support to India since March 2020, in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, and other partners.
CDC’s existing Global Health Security and HIV, TB, influenza and immunization programs serve in enhancing the expansion of India’s disease monitoring capabilities across a network of core public health areas, including:
Emergency Management – CDC has trained several thousand postgraduate medical students, first line responders from the national disaster response force, rapid response team members, national and international participants on public health emergency management.
Laboratory – CDC has provided technical guidance and training on safe sample collection, testing, transport and field biosafety to microbiologists, lab technicians, and healthcare workers from notified COVID-19 testing laboratories, state and district public health labs, along with first line responders from the National Disaster Response F
Many Indian-American families separated due to US travel ban
Certain categories of students, academics, journalists and individuals have been exempted from the ban, according to the US State Department.
By PTI| Posted by Sakina Fatima | Published: 5th May 2021 1:20 pm IST Representational Image
Washington: Several families in the US find themselves separated from their loved ones more than 13,000 kms away across two continents as the Biden administration’s ban on travellers from India in view of the unprecedented second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country has come into effect.
In some cases, the main earning member of the family has been left stranded in India, with no way to rejoin their spouses and kids in the US while in some other instances, mothers have been separated from their young children as one of the unintended consequences of the travel ban announced by President Joe Biden last week.
Curfew in Andhra Pradesh till May 18 amid surge in COVID cases Movement of not more than five persons will be permitted during the designated hours.
By ANI| Posted by Sakina Fatima | Updated: 5th May 2021 5:19 am IST Representative Image
Amaravati: In light of the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases, the Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday announced a state-wide curfew till May 18.
As per the order signed by Principal Secretary Anil Kumar Singhal, the curfew will be in place from 12 noon till 6 am.
During the period of implementation of the curfew, all firms, shops, establishments, offices, educational institutions, restaurants shall close at 12 pm and re-open after 6 am except hospitals, diagnostic labs, pharmacies and those dealing with the supply of specified essential services.